IN ITALY AND SICILY IN 1844. 11 



G. paupella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 42.] I took a single male 

 near Syracuse, on a flowery path through the moist meadow be- 

 tween the Anapo and the pillars of the Temple of Jupiter on the 

 19th of May. 



G. Hermannella, F. One male, taken near Naples on the 20th of 

 August. This species therefore is, as far as we know, distributed 

 all over Europe, from Riga to Naples. 



The specimen is small ; on the anterior wings the shining line 

 which runs out from the costa at the fascia and goes towards the 

 apex of the wing is interrupted in the middle. 



NOTE. I still possess several Sicilian species of Gelechia, 

 mostly single specimens, and not always in fine condition ; as they 

 are probably all new, I omit them here. Herr Mann will pro- 

 bably meet with them in Central Italy, and 1 shall then hasten 

 to notice the species now omitted. 



Roslerstammia granitella, Tr. Near Messina. A worn, pale female, 

 with protruding ovipositor on the 14th of February, together with 

 one specimen quite wasted; a very fine specimen, which also 

 appears to be a female, but has no protruding ovipositor, I took 

 on the 17th of February : all on the hills near the Palerrnitanc 

 Strasse. 



This species has on the middle of the costa of the anterior 

 wings two spots, which, though faint, are larger and darker than 

 those which follow nearer to the apex : in Fischer von Rb'sler- 

 stamm's figure these are not more distinctly expressed than the 

 other markings, and the wings are represented too broad. 



The fine specimen obtained on the 19th of February has the 

 entire surface of the anterior wings darker, whence the costal 

 spots seem less distinct ; the white triangular spot on the middle 

 of the inner margin is very small, and only reaches to the fold of 

 the wing ; the brown marginal spots before and beyond it, on the 

 other hand, are larger, and the darkest, which precedes the white 

 triangle, is considerably broader than in Fischer's figure L. Be- 

 fore the anal angle there is on the inner margin a sharply defined 

 white spot. That these differences only refer to the individual is 

 shown by the second specimen, the markings on which offer no 

 peculiarities. 



This species is hence double-brooded. 



jEchmia metallicella, F. v. R. In the beginning of April I took 

 several specimens near Messina, in mixed bushes on the eastern 

 slope of a mountain, principally near oak bushes. They differ in 

 no respect from our Glogau specimens, and I was much surprised, 

 a few hundred miles further south than Glogau, on a morning 

 most favourable for the capture of insects, to meet with hardly 

 anything but ordinary North-German forms, such as Lyccena 

 Argiolus, Thecla rubi, Hipparchia Megcera and Pamphilus, Ar- 

 gynnis Lathonia, Micropteryx fastuosella, &c. ; and even these were 

 very scarce. 



